Rome, 35,000 people flocked to museums Saturday night for Museums in Music

Great success in Rome for the 2018 edition of "Museums in Music." About 35000 visitors visited the Capitoline Museums on the evening of Saturday, December 1 from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., registering a 70 percent increase over last year’s edition.

“The result of this edition is exceptional: about 35,000 people participated in the initiative,” says satisfied Deputy Mayor with responsibility for Cultural Growth Luca Bergamo. "This is a different fruition of museums than usual, because on these occasions they become a public space, a kind of super square of the city where people can meet and be well together among traces and stories of the past and contemporary cultural life. This is work we have been doing on museums for some time and it is yielding very good results: people living this experience get to know each other and do so with pleasure. And this is a real value for peaceful and conscious coexistence in a society where there is a lot of shouting and instigation to see as a threat anyone who seems to be different or act outside the stereotypes. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who worked on the project, the museum custodians, Zètema, the artists - to make museums more and more an articulate cultural garrison and not a place to visit only once."

Below are the numbers recorded by the various sites that joined the initiative:
Capitoline Museums - 5,000;
Palazzo delle Esposizioni - 3,500;
Vittoriano Complex - 3,300;
Mercati di Traiano - 3,000;
Museum of Rome - 3,000;
Sapienza University of Rome - 3,000;
Ara Pacis Museum - 2,000;
National Museum of Castel S. Angelo - 1,100.

Rome, 35,000 people flocked to museums Saturday night for Museums in Music

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